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Show BEET GROWERS WILL RECEIVE MILLIONS FOB BEET CROPS Beet growers of Utah, Idaho and Washington are to recehe in the neighborhood of six millions of dollars for their beet crops this season, as the first payment for beet deliveries this season This Is thee tlmati made by the eight sugar company - whose ; headquarters an- in Ogden Ball Lake jnnd Layton This will be abOU 50 per cent of the season's dl bur etnonte The totals an looked upon as being i quite satisfactory in view of the heavy losses which resulted from the drouth. While the figures are not absolute, thej indicate thai the total tonnage of i the eight companies will come close to 1,400.000. which at $10 per ton ahlOUntS to $14,00(000, to be received by the fanners rm ihe two beet pay days on the beei crop alone. The Amalgamated Sugar company of Ogden will paj for approxin 3 260,000 tons in Weber, Cache and Ron 1 Elder counties and In the Idaho districts, dis-tricts, a total of right plants Amalgamated Sugar mm- i Pan' $2.50.) ,000 Delta Sugar company . 260,000 Layton Sugar comapny . .. 2P')!ooo West Cache Sugar company 300 000 People's Sugar company . . . lT.'.f.n I Gunnison Valley Sugar rnm i)an" 50,000 Beet Growers" company .... gQ 00 Total $6,783,500 The Utah-Idaho Sugar company's total will nmouni to $3,167,500, distributed dis-tributed to farmers in the districts as na med ! loi Shelb y, Idaho S2.000 Lehl 3 3,500 Garland 87l.ooo Idaho Talis 191.500 Sugar City I?,,) Dlackfoot 42i..r)0O Blslnore 250 000 Payaon 175,000 Spanish Fork 243,000 West Jordan in,, oofi Washington 27,000 Total for eleven plants. $3,157,500 The payment will be made for all beets delivered to the various factories' up to the night of October 31 On De-j cember 15 another sum, approximately the same amount, possibly a little' more, will be sent out to the farmers for November delivery. In addition to th- tremendous sum to be paid out in the various districts by the elghj sugar companies, all the ;iacones will have pay days abour the 10th, disbursing the largest sums in their history to their employes. This total, it is estimated, will not be far from 1250,000. One other sugar plant is about to be added to Utah's list, that beinc erected by the Plngree interests at Hooper Figures of beet grown there and of the amount to be distributed were not obtained yesterndy. I According to reports from the sugar jbeet districts between 75 and So per cent of the beets had been taken from the ground before the advenl ol the last snowstorm Although many of these beets have not been di llv-ered llv-ered to the sugar companies there is no question as to their being delivered deliv-ered There Is some apprehension, however, as to the beets that still re-main re-main in the ground and wen- covt red I bv snow. I |